Lumbermen and Foresters to Confer

Wash:ngton, Sept. 12.-In response to a letter from Wilson Compton in behalf of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, inviting him to designate public forestry agencies and associations to confer with the lumber industries regarding the applicaton of the forestry article of the Lumber Code, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has expressed his cordial concurrence and the conference will be lreld in Washington, October 23-25.

"I congratulate the lumber and timber products industries upon the conservation provisions which they have incorporated in their Industrial Recovery Act Code," writes Secretary Wallace. "It seems to the Department and to me personally," he continues, "that this action constitutes a constructive measure of major national significance upon which the industries may look with pride, and one rvhich promises to be of the utmost practical importance throughout their entire future."

I\Ir. Wallace consents to act as chairman of the conference so far as his other obligations may permit and he accepts Dr. Compton's suggestion that Dean Henry S. Graves, of the Yale School of Forestry, and formerly Forester of the United States, shall be requested to act as vice-chairman. Regarding the program, Secretary Wallace thinks that it should revolve around two main considerations:

1. What sustained yield management, silvicultural, protection, and other forestry measures are necessary to carry out the Code commitments of the industry.

2. To determine the extent to which such measures will require the co-operation of Federal, State, or other public agencies.

Commenting on these suggestions Secretary Wallace says:

"The first group of subjects would deal with the practicable measures which are necessary on the ground for the conservation and sustained production of the forest resource, without regard to the part which should be handled by the industry or the necessary public contribution. Since I understand that it is planned to have the detailed local measures worked out by regional units, I suppose that the conference would develop principles, etc., to the point where local agencies could work the details out most effectively.

"Having clearecl up these questions, it might then be possible under the second group far more effectively to consider and deterrnine what the public needs to do to make these measures possible, or in other words, the form and extent of public co-operation.

"All of the subjects which you have suggested r,vould, I think, fall logically into one or the other of these tll'o groups."

In Major Stuart's absence from Washington the Secretary has designated Earle H. Clapp, Assistant Forester, to act as a representative of the Department of Agriculture in working out the arrangements for the conference.

"In conclusion," the Secretary writes, "I wish to assure you, and through you the industries interested in the code, of my personal desire as well as that of the Forest Service and the Department to do everything within our power to make the forthcoming conference or conferences a success from the standpoint of both the industries and the public."

From the standpoint of professional foresters, the forestminded public and, perhaps, from that of the long time national economic interest, the conference between the forest industries and professional foresters and agencies is possibly the most significant result of the Industrial Recovery Act. The Code require that the lumber industries shall invite the public-interest agencies to unite with them in the drafting of rules and regulations for the lumber industry in administering its forests in accordance with sustained yield or conservation principles. It also provides that the conference shall advise the President of the public action which it will be advisable to take in the interests of forest conservation. This provision has reference to such matters as taxation, public protection of forests against fire and other destruction, etc.

Assuming that virtually all of the privately owned timber lands in the United States are affected by the Lumber Code, the coming conference will be of practical interest to the orvners of not less than 400 million acres of land. If the 150 million acres of farm woodlots be ignored there lvill still be about 250'million acres of commercial timber land which will find a sort of industrial conservation constitution in the rules and regulations which will be drafted by the conference for submission to the Lumber Code Authority.

All of this tends to mean what has frequently been pointed out by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, but perhaps is not well understood-that the NIRA has abruptly brought about organized forest conservation effort after three-quarters of a century of talk about it.

SPRING'S ANSWER

I heard God calling And I came.

His sun signalled me With its flame. His wind called me With its song.

His birds said they Had been waiting long. His little brooks ran tumbling Down the hills, Luring me with laughter Of rocky rills.

His grasses, yellow-green, Standing in the sun, Held up their fingers For me to come.

Heart of Oak and heart of Pine Beat a faint tattooFlowing sap in bowl and bud Climbing up anew.

Till at last the summons Set my heart aflameI heard God calling And I came.

-By Edwin Osgood Grover.

Robert Burns

What Raphael is to color, what Mozart is to music, that Burns is to song. With his sweet words "the mother soothes her child, the lover woos his bride, the soldier wins his victory." His biographer says his genius was so overmastering that news of Burns' arrival at the village inn drew farmers from their fields and at midnight awakened travelers, who left their beds to listen, delighted until morn.

One day this child of poverty and obscurity left his plow behind, and entering the drawingrooms of Edinburgh, met Scotland's most gifted scholars, her noblest lords and ladies. Mid these scholars, statesmen and philosophers he blazed "like a torch among the tapers" showing himself wiser than the scholars, wittier than the humorist, kinglier than the courtliest. And yet, in the very prime of his manhood, Burns lay down to die, a broken-hearted man. He had sinned much, suffered much, and being the victim of his own folly, he was also the victim of ingratitude and misfortune. Bewildered by his debts, he seems like an untamed eagle beating against bars he cannot break. The last time he lifted his pen upon the page it was not to give immortal form to some exquisite lyric he had fashioned, but to beg a friend in Edinburgh for the loan of ten pounds to save him from the terrors of a debtor's prison. By contrast with the lot of other worthies Robert Burns seems to have been the child of good fortune. In the last analysis the blame is with the poet himself. Not want of good fortune without, but want of good guidance within, wrecked his youth. Save Saul alone, history holds no sadder tragedy than that of Burns, who sang "the short and simple annals of the poor."-Newell Dwight Hillis.

Honest Notice

There is a sign in a window in Harlem that reads: "Piano lessons. Special pains to beginners."

AIN'T IT SO?

Tax his head, tax his hide, Let the government officials ride. Tax his cow, tax her calf, Tax his horse and tax his laugh.

Tax his houses, tax his land, Tax the blisters on his hands, Tax his Ford and tax his gas, Tax the road that he must Pass.

Tax the pay-roll, tax the sale, Tax his hard-earned paper kale. Tax his pipe and tax his smokeTeach him government's no joke.

Tax the water, tax the air, Tax the sunlight if you care.

Tax the living, tax the dead, Tax the unborn e'er they're fed.

Tax their comns, tax their shrouds, Tax their souls behind the clouds, Tax them all and tax them well, Tax them to the gates of Hell.

-The Oil Can.

That Sad Ritual

"How did the Smith wedding come off?"

"Fine, until the preacher asked the bride if she would cbey her husband."

She replied, "Do you think I'm a fool?" and the groom' who was somewhat dazed, answered "I do.t'

Hoo Hoo Club No. 39

East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 held its regular monthly meeting at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, September 18.

Earle E. Johnson of T,ivermore, retiring president, in a brief talk declared that Club No. 39 was one of the best of its klnd in the countrl'. ancl thanked the of6cers ancl members for their goocl support in the past year.

C. L Gilbert, Enreka NIill & Lumber Co., C)aklancl, the nerv president, in accepting the gavel from Mr. Johnson, said he had a full appreciation of tl-re size of the job, and rvhat is necessary to keep the club progress.ng as rapidly as it has up to the present.

H. Sewall Morton, past president. presented Earle Johnson with a handsome rvrist rvatch, properly inscribed, a gift from the club.

John V. Lewis. Collector of Internal Revenue, talked on "The Nerv Deal," the NRA, and the method of applying the processing taxes. He pointed out that this nation is passing from an era of intensive indiviclualisr.n to one of greater human cooperation and greater recognition of community interests.

Clycle C. Sl.rerrvoocl. Mr. Lewis' fornrer lau' spoke briefly of the trials and troutrles of citizens public office. and in control of patronage.

I)uring clinner Ir,erson Quartet, consisting of cello ancl piano. norv playing over Station KQW, se'ections.

I|THOLE SALE LUMBER-'TI98

lV. R. CHAMBERI.IN & C().

California Sales Agents for Polson Lumber & Shingle Co"

Hoquiam, Wash.

Andercon & Middleton Lumber Co. Aberdeen. Wash.

Prouty Lumber & Box Company

Warrenton, Oregon

Operating Steamers W.

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Partner, holding violins rendered

Mitch l-andis. r,r'ell knorn'n Central California lumberlnan, now with Hill & Morton, sang two solos. accompanied by Secretary Carl Moore.

Joe Bobba, that srvell accordionist who contributed so much to the success of the big "Reveille" program, played ancl exercised his comedy talents for the entertainment of the gathering, rvhich numbered about fifty.

Taylor Sublett With Hisgins

Taylor Oakland, l{iggins

L. Sublett, formerly rvith Strable Hardwood Co., is now a member of the sales staff of the T. E. Lumber Co.. San Francisco.

Hearing On State Retailers'Code

The final hearing on the California retail lumber dealers' Code of Fair Competition was held at the State Building, San Francisco, on Thursday, September 28. It is expected that the Code w:ll be approved at an early date.

GEO. WILLIAMS VISITS SOUT.HLAND

George A. Williams. sales lnanager of the Peterman Manufacturing Co. of Tacoma, Wash., was a recent visitor at the offices of l\{acDougal & Cole, Los Angeles. MacDougal & Cole represents the Peterman firm for carload shipments in the Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico territory. Following his stay in Los Angeles, Mr. Will:ams left for the East.

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